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...that most limes are actually yellow? The green lime that we all know is the Persian Lime, and it’s not it’s grown for its color and is not the best tasting of the limes. Key Limes are the best. Key Limes you see for sale in stores are green because they’re picked too early and haven’t reached their best flavor.

I know. Fascinating.

Bought a little Meyer Lemon tree last week – kind of a splurge, but I really wanted one. We have one in one of the greenhouses at work that belongs to a co-worker’s mom – it was doing really poorly, so she brought it in to see if we could nurse it back to health. We kind of babied it, and the first year it was there, it produced 2 sad little lemons. Last year, the damn tree (which is all of about 2 feet tall) had 42 lemons on it, and they were AWESOME. Best lemons ever.

So if that one can make it, I have high hopes for my little lemon tree. I also have a little Sumatran Tangerine tree (about a foot tall, if even) that I inherited during one of our big greenhouse clean-outs. It was headed for the compost pile, so I took it home. It had 4 tangerines on it last year, but they were all wicked sour and we couldn’t really eat them. But I figure it has to do better in the new house, what with the giant sunroom and all. I’m not usually a big fan of house plants, but having fruit trees is more like farming. Just indoors.